This Saint Louis University PhD dissertation, published in 1991,
surveys the criticism of The Turn Of The Screw
from the novella's publication to 1980. It relates trends in The
Turn Of The Screw criticism to developments in literary
criticism and literary theory and discusses how the latter have been
influenced by broader historical and cultural changes. In the course of
this discussion other Jamesian works are analyzed. This is a valuable
study for Jamesian scholars, as well as for students of literary theory
- it can be seen as a study of the development of literary theory in
the twentieth century with this particular literary work as a
touchstone study.